Open Source @soloio_inc / @IstioMesh TOC & Steering member / @CloudNativeFdn TOC member & Ambassador / O'Reilly Author / Inventor / ex-IBMer
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Can't believe I wrote another @IstioMesh book - Istio Ambient Explained with @christianposta! Thank you @christianposta and the @OReillyMedia team, it was a wonderful experience! 🎆🎆🎆
Free download: lp.solo.io/istio-ambient-mes…
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Open source runs on people who show up and build.
At AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, we celebrated the winners of the inaugural Agentic AI Foundation Technical Excellence Awards, recognizing the people and organizations moving open agentic AI forward.
Keystone Award: Den Delimarsky (@Anthropic)
Outstanding Technical Contribution: @nbarbettini (@TryArcade) and Marcelo Trylesinski
Community Builder: @linsun_unc (@soloio_inc) and the MCP Meetup Tokyo team: @sasshi_i, @sonoda_mj, and @ma_tsukada
Open Agentic AI Innovation: @mezmodata, @opaquesys, and Vstorm
From advancing MCP security and SDKs to building global communities and putting open standards to work, these are the contributions that make the ecosystem stronger.
Huge congratulations to all our winners, and thank you for building in the open!
aaif.io/blog/winners-of-the-…
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Drone 2 is cleared for takeoff. 🚁
Join @linsun_unc of @soloio_inc for “Cloud Native Without Limits: What Can AI Agents Do for Us?” at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City.
bit.ly/4rPFjZ6
Register: bit.ly/3BDI5XL
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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself.
35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology:
🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA
☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers
📱 Connecting billions of people
🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming
What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible.
Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together.
learnlinux.ie/content/linus-…
#Linux35
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What happens when agentgateway goes head-to-head with LiteLLM’s new Rust mode?
A benchmark using Fortio and a mock Anthropic backend found agentgateway delivered ~36× higher throughput, ~30× lower latency, and dramatically lower memory usage at maximum throughput.
At 900 QPS, P99 latency was 1.45 ms vs. 46.60 ms.
See the full benchmark and methodology from AAIF Ambassador @linsun_unc: bit.ly/4wDViKH
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love reading stories like this! "From Adopter to Contributor: iFLYTEK's Journey with #agentgateway " agentgateway.dev/blog/2026-0…
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My experience working on ate.dev (powering this demo) has been incredible. It truly feels like I’m being given the opportunity to build the future
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schedule comes out tomorrow :)
🎉 More sessions. More projects. More community.
Register for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City.
Save up to $480 by September 2 + choose the pass that fits your goals, including the All-Access Pass for CNCF-hosted co-located events.
🔗 bit.ly/3BDI5XL
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Istio Day is back at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA 2026!
The CFP is now open! If you have an interesting Istio technical story, lesson learned, production experience, community contribution or innovation to share, we'd love to hear:
forms.gle/R3TBi9AntxNosB7i6
ALT Istio Day poster with CFP information and QR code for submission
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The July 28 MCP update is a breaking change for every MCP client and server. The move to stateless communication is the right architectural direction, but "upgrade everything at once" is not a realistic production strategy for most teams.
@linsun_unc wrote a practical guide to doing this safely using @agentgateway: dark launch the upgraded server with zero production traffic, validate that it handles both legacy and modern clients, canary traffic up gradually, and roll back instantly if anything goes wrong. The client endpoint never changes throughout.
The core insight is that protocol upgrades and traffic migrations are separate problems. Modern MCP SDKs already handle both protocol versions. The harder part is controlling when production traffic actually moves, and that is a routing problem, not an application problem. agentgateway turns every rollout decision into a configuration change rather than a redeployment.
If you are running MCP servers in production and need a concrete playbook for the July 28 migration, this is a good one to follow.
aaif.io/blog/safely-rolling-…
🤖 Made with AI
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Great article by @linsun_unc on the latest MCP changes
The July 28 MCP update is a breaking change for every MCP client and server. The move to stateless communication is the right architectural direction, but "upgrade everything at once" is not a realistic production strategy for most teams.
@linsun_unc wrote a practical guide to doing this safely using @agentgateway: dark launch the upgraded server with zero production traffic, validate that it handles both legacy and modern clients, canary traffic up gradually, and roll back instantly if anything goes wrong. The client endpoint never changes throughout.
The core insight is that protocol upgrades and traffic migrations are separate problems. Modern MCP SDKs already handle both protocol versions. The harder part is controlling when production traffic actually moves, and that is a routing problem, not an application problem. agentgateway turns every rollout decision into a configuration change rather than a redeployment.
If you are running MCP servers in production and need a concrete playbook for the July 28 migration, this is a good one to follow.
aaif.io/blog/safely-rolling-…
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Thrilled to announce the MCP 2026-07-28 release. It is one of MCP's biggest yet, built on 18 months of lessons learned.
A few highlights:
★ MCP is now stateless, with semantics for multi-round-trip requests. Serving MCP just got much simpler and more scalable.
★ MCP now has extensions. MCP Apps, Tasks, Enterprise Managed Auth, and more. Domain-specific ways to use MCP, plus room for experimental additions.
★ Python, Typescript, C# (soon) SDKs released a v2.0.0 for the new spec with improved ergonomics!
But the biggest highlight for me: this release is a true community effort. Individuals and companies alike — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and many others helped shape this specification.
And there's much more. Full details: blog.modelcontextprotocol.io…
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Positioning “open models” as dumping is misinformed & will lead to horrible policy decisions. The marginal cost of software is zero. In real competition, price will and should trend there. “Open” is inevitable, sustainable, & favored by customers.
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Is a Pod the right deployment unit for an AI agent?
via @CloudNativeFdn, by @linsun_unc
cncf.io/blog/2026/07/14/is-a…
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What is the right deployment unit for an AI agent?
AAIF Ambassador @linsun_unc explores how agent systems may need new approaches to deployment and architecture as the agentic AI ecosystem evolves.
Community voices like Lin’s help move the conversation forward and shape the future of open agentic AI. bit.ly/4vzjKx4
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🚀 Join the #CloudNative community in Salt Lake City for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12.
Register by September 2 to save up to $480 on your pass. Choose an All-Access Pass for access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events or a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Only Pass.
🔗 bit.ly/3BDI5XL
Very excited to share that I've been selected as an Agentic AI Foundation ambassador! 🎉
You'll find me at the upcoming @AgenticAIFdn's AgentCon + MCPCon events in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Jose. If you are working on any of the AAIF projects, let's connect!
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What can 10 years in cloud native teach you?
CNCF Ambassador @linsun_unc (Lin Sun) has been part of the community since the very first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Watch to hear what a decade in cloud native has meant to her.
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a smarter alternative to "always use plan mode":
always frame your task as a question, so that the model is invited to push back and rate the quality of the idea/suggest alternatives, rather than blindly execute what you SAID to do
(which is often not precisely what you MEANT)
literally just appending "?" to the end of your prompt often does it
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Introducing @agentgateway — the newest hosted project at AAIF.
An open source gateway for MCP, A2A, LLM, and API traffic.
Unified routing, security, observability, and governance for modern AI systems.
Read the blog to learn more: aaif.io/blog/agentgateway-jo…
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Meet Eva Gustavsson, a retired Master System Designer at Ericsson who reminds us that the best builders never stop asking questions.
Eva started in hardware but transitioned into software system design out of pure curiosity. Before retiring, she spent five years adapting the Istio service mesh to fit Ericsson’s production environment.
Her takeaway for the community? "There is always a corner where you can learn new things. That’s always been my drive."